Door-knob fastener.



Z. E. RICE.

DOOR KNOB FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1912.

1,049,398. Patented Jan.7,1913.

Witnesse Inventor Attorneys Zazkaria Elma,

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ZAGHABIAH E. RICE, 0F LANDISBUBG, PENNSYLVANIA.

DOOR-KNOB FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 25, 1912. Serial No. 686,030.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ZACHARIAH Rice, a citizen of the United States,residing at Landisburg, in the county of Perry and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful DoorsKnob Fastener, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in door knob fasteners.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide means forlocking the sleeve on which the door knob is secured, to the spindle. I

A further object of the invention is to provide an attaching means whichwill lock the sleeve and spindle together and which will resilientlyengage the sleeve to prevent its displacement and at the same timepresent a neat appearance. I

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will. appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it. being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within thescope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective, view of the locking device.Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same in its attached Fig. 4 alongitudinalsect-ion showing a modified form of pin. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectionalview of Fig. 2 in which the section is taken through the locking device.Fig. 6 is an elevation of the pin shown inFig. 4.

In the drawings, 10 designates the spindle which is, formed with theusual openings 11. Removably mounted upon the spindle is a sleeve 12which is attached to the door knob 14, the sleeve 12 being provided withan opening 15 which registers with one of the openings 11 in thespindle.

The sleeve retaining, device consists of the a resilient clip 16 whichis adapted to embrace the sleeve 12, the clip 16 being of suiiicientlength to embrace the greater portion of the.

sleeve, securely holding the clip against displacement. The pin 1,7 issecured centrally to the clip being provided with the enlargedv head 18which enters the opening in the sleeve, said head being ofa diameterslightly Fig. 3 a longitudinal section.

less than the opening in the sleeve. It will be noted that when the pinis positioned within the opening in the spindle, the head 18 will enterthe opening in the sleeve, the clip 16 holding the same againstaccidental displacement. In the form shown in Fig. 4 a head-l9 is offsetfrom the pin 20. By this construction it will be noted that the sleeve12 may be adjusted with respect to the spindle 10, it being noted thatthe same may 4 be disposed either toward the knob or toward the edge ofthesleeve,. this construction providing an adjustment which underordinary circumstances is secured by removing the pin from one openingin the spindle and placing the same in another opening in the spindle.It is found necessary, in order to properly space the sleeve on thespindle to sometii'nes provide openings in the spindle other than thoseformed in the same when it is manufactured, the present deviceovercoming the necessity of interposing an opening between the twoopenings which have already been formed, in order to secure a certainadjustment of the sleeve on the spindle which cannot be accomplished byutilizing the openingsalready formed in the spindle.

Itwill be noted that by reversing the head 19 the sleeve may be adjustedwith respect to the spindlewithout an opening being formed between twoof the openings initially formed in the spindle.

The many advantages of a construction ofthis character will be clearlyapparent as it will be not/ed that the sleeve may be adjusted withrespect to the spindle in a simple and convenient manner. It will alsobe noted that both forms of this device may be easily and economicallymanufactored, and that the clip and pin may be readily positioned in theregistering open-,

ings of the sleeve same together.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new. is: 1. Akno'b retaining device consisting of a circular resilient'clip, a pinhaving an enlarged head, said head being otl'set with respect to thesaid pin, an extension formed integral with said head ada ted to extendand spindle to lock the \through said clip and secure y hold the pintheretos j 2. lna door knob the combination ot u knob proper, a sleeveattached thereto, said Patented Jan. 7,1913.

sleeve being provided with an opening in the side Wall thereof, aspindle adapted to fit within said sleeve and engage the side thereof,said spindle having a hole therein adapted to register with said sleevehole, a resilient clip adapted to embrace said sleeve, a pin having anenlarged offset head secured to said clip, said pin being adapted to fitwithin said spindle hole, said head being adapted to'fit Within thesleeve hole to thereby prevent any longitudinal movement of W. A. ZINN,J. E. TOOMEY.

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